Monday, February 07, 2011

Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt Unhinged and Dangerous

Peter Schmitt has real issues he needs to deal with. He gets far too angry and turns beet red too often at Legislature meetings.Now he has turned his anger on the members of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) and it's just very violent.The Long Island Press reports that when Schmitt was talking about his conspiracy theories about NIFA to the Press he said "I’m just going to enjoy hitting them on the side of the head with a baseball bat.”What kind of man is Schmitt (or lack of man) that he needs to say that?It's not like he used a simple metaphor like "I'm going to beat them over the head with their conflicts of interest."He stepped over the line by ratcheting up the violent imagery.But then again, we should expect that from someone who a Federal Prosecutor once called "very unspohisticated" and "naive."

And of course Schmitt is unapologetic for his comments. "I will not reply to Yaturo’s rambling statement because she’s already had her chance and she struck out.”